Ernest K. Gann Quotes
The emergencies you train for almost never happen. It's the one you can't train for that kills you.
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Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot.
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The president is just the coach of a football team. You need the right support, the right stadium, the right players, the right staff. An excellent coach is not going to win games.
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I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.
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I am trying to do my own thing, but there will always be comparisons, even if I don't agree with them.
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Very, very rare that you do a job knowing that the audience is desperate for you to do that job. Most films you make don't get released, is the fact.
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Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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I'll always find the things that make a role complicated!
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I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.
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Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing.
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I didn't grow up in one of those restrictive Christian households where you couldn't do this or that. We were brought up with a great collection of good morals and good values, but we also had fun. We'd go to church on Sunday, but then have ice cream, roller skate or play in the park afterwards.
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When I'm filming, it's in the contract - 'No kiteboarding' - ha ha.
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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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I don't think my daughter wants to see me on the toilet. Lila has seen me nude.
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There's a high head count on 'Homeland.'
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When writers don't know what to do with a character, they build up the supporting cast and universe to kind of hide that fact. After a while, you can no longer see the character for the underbrush. When that happens, you need to bring out the weed-whacker to clear some of that away so you can focus on the main character.
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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
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I think, for any actor, dealing with the paranormal is intriguing.
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Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling – I can so well remember it. There was always something more – behind and beyond everything – to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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I've got a lot of miles on my legs.
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Don't you find that the more you know, the more you don't know and can't ever learn because there's too much stuff out there?
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Can we be sure that terrorism and WMD will join together? If we are wrong, we will have destroyed a threat that, at its least is responsible for inhuman carnage and suffering. That is something I am confident history will forgive. But if our critics are wrong and we do not act, then we will have hesitated in face of this menace, when we should have given leadership. That is something history will not forgive.
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The emergencies you train for almost never happen. It's the one you can't train for that kills you.
